قیراچ

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • قیراج (kırac)

Etymology

From a development of Proto-Turkic *kïr (“steppe, desert; isolated mountain”); cognate with Tatar qıraç.

Adjective

قیراچ • (kıraç)

  1. (of places) barren, waste, infertile, of poor fertility, not producing vegetation
    Synonyms: چوراق (çorak), قیصیر (kısır)
  2. (of agricultural land) fallow, left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time
  • قیر (kır, “steppe; wilderness, waste”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: kıraç
  • → Armenian: խըռաճ (xəṙač)

Further reading

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